Cluster: Swiss Identity

Gypsy festival aims to inform

This content was published on Jul 13, 2000 The festival is aimed at educating local residents about the gypsy lifestyle and laying to rest many of the misconceptions about it. A large tent takes up the centre of the campsite, at the Schutzen Areal in the Zurich West redevelopment district. Inside there’s an old gypsy wagon and a collection of photographs chronicling gypsy…

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Zurich cuts support for Chinese sister city

This content was published on Jul 13, 2000 The Zurich council voted to trim its grant to the city by more than half after scrutinising its long-running partnership with Kunming. Funding will be cut from SFr2.4 million to SFr1.3 million over the next three years. The decision comes after the People’s Party accused Zurich councillor, Thomas Wagner, of corruption, fraud and cronyism in…

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Heuberger fails to make splash at Swiss Open

This content was published on Jul 12, 2000 Heuberger was the only Swiss player to see any action as rain took centre stage for most of Wednesday. The biggest shock among the five other matches which were completed was the defeat of the number three seed, Spain’s Juan Carlos Ferrero. He went out in straight sets to the Argentinian, Gaston Gaudio. Another Spaniard,…

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Locarno film festival unveils nominees

This content was published on Jul 12, 2000 The festival will be awarding an honorary leopard award to Dutch director, Paul Verhoeven, in recognition of his work, which includes the raunchy American blockbuster, “Basic Instinct” (1992). Announcing the 19 films which will be competing for awards in the 53rd festival, the director, Marco Müller, said there were two themes common to this year’s…

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Montreux Off Festival plays on

This content was published on Jul 12, 2000 Open-air shows along the lakeside mean that it is possible to visit Montreux, let your hair down, hear a lot of top-class music – and not spend a centime. The Off Festival, as it’s known, has been in existence for as long as the official event, that is, 34 years. The organisers have always tried…

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Blatter denies exerting pressure over 2006 World Cup venue

This content was published on Jul 12, 2000 Blatter, who was known to have favoured South Africa, told a German newspaper he had never tried to exert pressure on members of the 24-person executive. He dismissed as a “fairy tale” reports that he held a pre-dawn meeting with Asian members of the executive on the day the vote was taken. He said he…

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Berne enters race to host 2010 Winter Olympics

This content was published on Jul 12, 2000 The proposal amounts to a bid on behalf of Switzerland, with the organisers planning to stage events across the country. The bid is being put forward under the slogan: “Open Mind”, and the committee, “Bern 2010”, has earmarked 12 venues in eight cantons to host the games. It is proposing that all skiing events be…

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Swiss Open commandeers more courts to get play back on track

This content was published on Jul 12, 2000 A total of four outside courts will be available for play, both in singles and doubles, should the rain stay off long enough. The contingency plans have been introduced after bad weather washed out virtually the entire programme on Monday and Tuesday. Tuesday at least saw the completion of qualifying for the men’s singles, although…

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This content was published on Jul 12, 2000 Chiudinelli put up a brave fight before losing the final set on a tie-break. If he had gone through, Switzerland would have had a record six players in the tournament. Arnold will now face another Swiss, George Bastl, in the first round of the tournament. After rain played havoc with Monday’s order of play –…

Qualifying completed at Swiss Open

This content was published on Jul 11, 2000 Chiudinelli put up a brave fight before losing the final set on a tie-break. If he had gone through, Switzerland would have had a record six players in the tournament. Arnold will now face another Swiss, George Bastl, in the first round of the tournament. After rain played havoc with Monday’s order of play –…

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